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Older Adults and Accessible Preparedness Pack

A large-print guide with fill-in worksheets for adults 65 and over, people with disabilities, and the family and caregivers who support them

A calm, large-print plan for the days when power, pharmacies or helpers are out of reach.

Quick Pack (13 pages) + Full Guide (186 pages)
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US Letter, prints on A4 too
Worksheets you fill in
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Who it is for

Adults aged 65 and over, people with disabilities (mobility, vision, hearing, memory and thinking, powered medical equipment, daily medication), and the family and caregivers who support them.

What you get

A Start Here section with a contents table and a map that sends you to the right sections, whether you have a mobility, vision, hearing or memory need, use powered equipment, take daily medicine, live alone or care for someone else.
Seven small first-week jobs, each under 30 minutes, so you can start without feeling swamped.
A Helper Agreement (W2), a Helper Network Map and Phone List (W3) and a Daily Check-In and Escalation Ladder (W4), plus a short script for asking someone to help.
A true one-page Emergency Information Sheet (W5) with an optional back page, and a cut-out Wallet Card (W5b), with a table showing where to keep copies so one flood or lockout cannot take them all.
A Medicine List and Supply Tracker (W6) with clear supply targets, refill habits and what to do if a refill hits a snag. It records what your labels say and never gives dosing advice.
An Equipment Power Plan (W7) and Supplier Call Sheet (W8) covering oxygen, CPAP or BiPAP, power chairs and scooters, home dialysis and refrigerated medicines, with step-by-step generator and carbon monoxide safety.
Plain lists of alert channels, a bedside find-it-in-the-dark check, a spare-aids rule and a cut-out set of Communication Cards (W9) for deaf, low-vision, speech and mobility needs.
A Stay-or-Go Decision Card (W10), a 3-day Go-Kit Checklist (W11) and an Evacuation Help and Transport Plan (W12), with a flood and ice warning and advice on upper floors, rides, registries and special-needs shelters.
A 2-week Stay-at-Home Kit Checklist (W13) and a Hot-Day and Cold-Day Plan with room temperature log (W14), plus worked ice storm and broken air-conditioning scenarios.
A fill-in script card (W15) for your first hour in a hospital or shelter, with plain facts about service animals and what shelters should support.
A dementia section with a Person Profile and Emergency Kit (W16), a wandering-prevention plan and a 15-minute If They Are Missing card (W17).
A Money and Documents Locator (W18), a Before You Pay Card (W19), contractor checks, a hang-up script and a one-page note for UK readers.

What is in it

1. Start Here: Why Planning Looks Different, and What the Experts SayThis section tells you where to begin, gives you seven small jobs for your first week, and explains in plain words why the same emergency can be harder with age or disability. The fix is planning and support, not blame.
2. Your Helper Network and Check-In RoutinesThis section helps you build a network of people who have said yes, know their jobs, and can reach you. It also sets up a daily check-in so someone notices quickly if you need help, especially if you live alone.
3. Medical Information, Medicines and the One-Page SheetResponders, hospital staff and shelter workers do not know you. This section helps you write down the health facts they need, keep copies in the right places, and hold a safe buffer of medicine.
4. Powered Equipment Plans and Safe Backup PowerEvery powered device needs three answers: how long it runs without mains power, what you do next, and who helps. This section shows you how to get those answers device by device, and how to use backup power without carbon monoxide risk.
5. Hearing, Vision, Mobility and Thinking Needs: Alerts, Cards and Spare AidsThis section is about three things: getting the warning, being understood when help arrives, and finding your aids in the dark. Say what helps you, in plain words, and set things up so it works even when you are half asleep.
6. Leaving Home With Limits: When to Go, Who Helps, Where to Go'Leave early' is good advice, but it does not say when, or how you will manage the stairs and the ride. This section gives you clear rules for when to go, a plan for getting out, and three forms to fill in.
7. Staying in Place Safely: Heat, Cold, Falls, Fire and the Two-Week KitSometimes the right plan is to stay home. This section helps you stock for two weeks, keep your home at a safe temperature, and cut the risks that hurt people most when they stay: heat, cold, falls, fire and carbon monoxide.
8. Hospital and Shelter Stays: What to Bring, What to SayThe first hour in a shelter or hospital is the hardest. Staff are busy, the room is loud, and they cannot help with needs they do not know about. This section gives you a bag check, words to say, and a short list of things to ask for politely.
9. Caring for Someone With Dementia in an EmergencyA calm plan for caregivers and families, and for people living with memory change who want to plan ahead. It covers a kit, home measures, wandering prevention, what to do if someone goes missing, leaving home, heat and cold, and your own backup.
10. Money, Documents and Scams After a DisasterThis section helps you set up your money and papers before trouble, then stay safe from fraud afterward. Scammers know people are tired and rushed after a disaster, so a few simple rules and a card on the fridge can protect you.

Read a free sample

This is the opening of the guide, exactly as it appears in the PDF. Download the free sample PDF (4 pages: the cover, the one-page plan and a first taste).

Part 1

1. Start Here: Why Planning Looks Different, and What the Experts Say

This section tells you where to begin, gives you seven small jobs for your first week, and explains in plain words why the same emergency can be harder with age or disability. The fix is planning and support, not blame.

Age is not the problem. Gaps in support are.

You already know how to run your life. This guide helps you plan for the days when the things around you stop working: power, roads, pharmacies, helpers.

Age alone is not what makes a disaster harder. The American Red Cross and the American Academy of Nursing (2020) link poor outcomes to sensory, thinking and mobility limits, isolation, limited money and weak policies. Those are gaps in support. They are not a fault in you. Planning and a good network close those gaps.

Planning is also not one size. A person who uses oxygen, a person who is deaf and a person who lives alone need different things. So plan for the person you actually are. The map below shows you where to start.

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Questions

What exactly do I get?

Two PDFs in one download. The Quick Pack (13 pages) is the short version: the one-page plan, the checklists and the sheets to fill in and keep. The Full Guide (186 pages) has the reasons, worked examples and everything else. Open the Quick Pack first. Both are laid out for US Letter paper. You print them, or read them on a tablet or computer. There is nothing physical to wait for.

How do I get it after I pay?

Payment is handled by Payhip, a payment service for digital products. As soon as it goes through, you see a page with your download link, and the same link is emailed to you. This website never sees your card details.

Can I print it?

Yes. It is made for printing: big type, plenty of space to write, and worksheets you fill in by hand. Print the whole thing, or only the pages you need. Print at 100% size on US Letter (it also prints fine on A4).

Is it based on real sources?

Yes. Every instruction traces to an official source such as Ready.gov and FEMA, the CDC, the National Weather Service, the American Red Cross, the US Department of Energy and the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The sources are listed at the end, with tags next to the items they support. It was fact-checked and safety-reviewed before publication. It is still general information, not professional advice, so check anything critical with your local authorities.

Is it just the free plan on a PDF?

No. The free personal plan gives you a checklist and your top priorities. The guides go further: decision rules, schedules, scenario walkthroughs and worksheets you fill in, written for one situation in depth.

Can I get a refund?

Read the free sample and the full contents list first, so you know what you are buying. Because this is a digital download, we cannot refund it once you have downloaded it. If you have not downloaded it yet, email hello@afternormal.co within 14 days and you will be refunded. If the file is faulty, will not open or is not what we described, email us and we will fix it, replace it or refund you. See the terms for the details.

Will I get updates?

Official guidance changes. If we revise this guide you will be able to download the new edition from the same link.

Important notice. Important notice. This guide is general educational information. It is not professional, medical, legal, financial or emergency advice, and it does not replace advice from your own clinician, pharmacist, equipment supplier, insurer or local authorities. Never change a dose or skip a medicine because of an emergency without asking a clinician or pharmacist. Rules, registries, shelters and services differ from place to place, so check with your local emergency management office. In an emergency, call your local emergency number (911 in the US, 999 or 112 in the UK) and do not wait for this guide. Sources are listed at the end of the guide. Facts were checked against those sources at the date of publication (October 2026), but official guidance changes, so check current guidance before you rely on it. Terms and refunds.